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I'll be stopping in Santa Monica, CA for a few days and wanted to see if anyone was from there, wanted to hook up for drinks one day. I will arrive on Wednesday, Nov 1st and leave to Vegas on Friday, Nov 3rd.

I'm attending the American Film Market conference that's in town for a movie release i'm involved with ....

I'll be stopping in Santa Monica, CA for a few days and wanted to see if anyone was from there, wanted to hook up for drinks one day. I will arrive on Wednesday, Nov 1st and leave to Vegas on Friday, Nov 3rd.

I'm attending the American Film Market conference that's in town for a movie release i'm involved with ....

Andy, the AFM is fun - you'll love it. LOTS of running around the hotel, however. Wear comfortable shoes. :-) I used to work in film distribution ... did the AFM 4 years in a row.

I'm not in Santa Monica but I'm in the Los Angeles area. I think you'll be way too busy to have drinks but if I end up at the AFM, I'll PM you and for sure we can have a drink by the pool :-) Otherwise, see you in Vegas.

OOoooooooo - Trailer looks great Andy! Good luck. It'll do well at the market. Believe me, the films presented there are usually really bad B titles and even those sell. This looks like a class A film.

Don't know about the title though. Tumbre??? I'm sure it has relevance but ...

It's a private, secret meeting in the back alley behind the bar, Geno. Like the Bolsheviks used to do back in the 30's, only they did it behind bookstores. That's how an aunt and uncle of mine met - at one of those secret meetings. Their kids now live in Berkeley, believe it or not.

Rexanne:

Otherwise, see you in Vegas.

Hush Rexanne, you are not supposed to reveal anything about the secret cell meeting behind the bar beyond using the special secret code pinky handshake.

OK then, to make it plainer and clearer: Santa Monica is one thing, which is fine for those willing to venture south of Ventura Blvd. (which I haven't done for over 6 years... LOL)...

but the Las Vegas gig is private and INVITE ONLY and even though some know about it and would or would not attend anyway regardless, being private and invite only makes it totally not cool to publicly make references to it, as a matter of proper courtesy and etiquette.

Incidentally, to draw an equivalent parallel in another vertical, that's why SEO Roadshow is no longer discussed or announced or even mentioned in SEO forums before the fact - because it's an invite only event (albeit black hat SEO only, which is irrelevant, though interesting), and keeping mum avoids misunderstandings and the possibility of offense being taken, if you get the drift.

Not that there's any implication that the Vegas gig is black hat of any sort, but we have to understand that sideways winks and veiled, cryptic whispers regarding exclusionary venues can and do tend to arouse a degree of righteous fervor, pique curiosity among the uninformed, and diminish, to some undetermined level, the degree of trust as well.